Today’s Top Stories and Opinion
- Guardian: Gas fracking gets green light to boost energy supply
- Iain Martin: This is government on the back of a fag packet
- City AM: UK is wrong to have turned its back on individual freedom
- Ruth Porter: The Government can’t have it both ways on charitable giving
- Guido Fawkes: Brian Paddick did not disclose £387,239 Met pay-off
- Taxpayers’ Alliance: The rich, the poor and the middle pay a lot of tax
- Telegraph: BBC spends £277m on redundancies in seven years
Loony Left
- George Monbiot: I still don’t understand the NHS reforms
- Guardian: Plain packaging for cigarettes isn’t enough. Next – fast-food
- Metro: Three-day walkout planned by Tube union
- Telegraph: Barack Obama makes Falklands gaffe by calling Malvinas the Maldives
- Andrew Gilligan: Ken Livingstone: I will instruct the police to pursue illegal immigrants less
- Polly Toynbee: Soak the rich!
Mayoral Election Update
Guardian: Ken Livingstone promises, but Boris Johnson delivers
Click here for your local campaigning events
On this day…
1961: Exiles invade Cuba at Bay of Pigs to overthrow Fidel Castro
Daily Thatcherite
“They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber – giving a whole new meaning to the term ‘conviction politician’.”
Daily Reaganite
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
If you have any questions about YBF or our series of events, email